guenter geiger wrote:

Hi

If you are on Debian, you should always try the Debian package first, this should keep you out of all the compilation trouble. If you are not happy with the precompiled version (it doesn't have avi support, because libavifile is not cross platform) let me know. I will do my best to make good packages. As long as noboy complains I assume the packages are working perfectly.

If you want to compile gem by hand, Debian offers you some help for finding the correct libraries.

# apt-get build-dep gem

I'm compiling by hand (despite the headache) for features and control. I used to have the debian packages installed and found it difficult to install new externals that are only available in source. Having everything compiled by hand makes updates easier in the long run for me. I generally only use apt-get for every day packages, ones that I really count on and use a lot (like PD) I do by hand. I've never used apt-get's source management though, I've only used it to install binaries.

apt-get build-dep gem tried to install the puredata package, while I'm trying to install this all with a hand compiled devel_0_37 cvs pure data.

I suppose I may be doing things backwards, but it works now, so oh well.

Another thing is that I'm running Sarge, not SID, so my addiction to features wouldn't be fed unless I used CVS versions for my favorite programs.

And one last thing is that I'm gearing up to start writing some C stuff to work with PD, so I'm going to want all the latest sources.

Cheers, Ian

will install all the libraries you need to compile gem. (you have to install libavifile-dev by hand, though)

# apt-get install libavifile-dev

Then compile gem either the standard way, or automatically with

# apt-get source --build gem

Guenter

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:

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Hi,

I'm also having some problems compiling Gem. I've tried both the CVS version and the .90 release. ./configure keeps resulting in this:

building pix_filmFFMPEG checking for dv_init in -ldv... no checking alternate -ldv in ../../../GemLibs/ /usr/local/lib /usr/local/src... configure: error: library dv not available - try makeauxlibs

I've run makeauxlibs and it finishes successfully. I ran configure with these options:

./configure --prefix=$HOME --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=usr/lib:../../../GemLibs:/usr/include --enable-mmx --with-ftgl --with-mpeg --with-mpeg3 --with-quicktime --with-avi --with-aviplay --with-avcodec=~/pd/externals/pidip/ffmpeg/libavcodec/libavcodec.a --with-avformat=~/pd/externals/pidip/ffmpeg/libavformat/libavformat.a --with-ieee1394 --with-x

because /usr/lib has libdv.a .la .so .so.2 .so.2.1.0 .so.4 .so.4.0.0. Since using the modified includedir and libdir didn't seem to change anything I tried editing the configure file, replacing every instance of /usr/local/lib with /usr/lib, but that still doesn't change anything.

Thank you for any help.

-Ian SMith-Heisters

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which version of libdv do you have installed ? does it work with "--disable-ieee1394" ?

It does work with --disable-ieee1394. I had tried it without --with-ieee1394, thinking the default would be disabled, but hadn't tried explicitly disabling it.

I had libdv2 version 0.99-2 and libdv4 version 0.102-4 installed. I uninstalled libdv2 and it works fine with --with-ieee1394. Sorry I didn't think of that without asking.

Thanks, Ian

mfg.as.rd IOhannes

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Thank you for any help.

-Ian SMith-Heisters

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